July 2002 – June 2006: PhD student

January 1998 – June 2002: Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Animal Science, UTAD, Portugal

Current interests of research

Animal and plant breeding genetics and genomics, including bioinformatics, biostatistics and molecular genetics. Application of bioinformatics tools for the analysis of next generation sequencing data, to decipher the genetic regulation of complex traits of economic importance in animals and plants.